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Reincarnation

I do
not believe in reincarnation, but if I did and if it were so, I would wish to
spend my next life as a tree! Seriously, even as a small child sitting under a
timeless old oak I have thought of this.
Yes a tree, a White Oak preferably, on an east facing
slope in Appalachia. I would watch over “my” forest, year after year,
century after century. From budding springs to hazy summer days, colorful fall
and darkest winter nights, storms and wind, through it all I would abide.
Animals and birds nesting upon my limbs, others going
about their lives beneath my broad trunk. Becoming intertwined in the web of
life, of nature’s core. There could be worst ways to spend one’s days and time
than observing life in a forest.
But reincarnation aside, this is kind of what the
ladies of Wildlife Women do all the time! ~ Wade Pennell